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Tyler Durden
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Tyler Durden

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Iranian ballistic missiles streak across the night sky above the Israeli coastal city of Netanya during a retaliatory strike

The Ceasefire Is Dead: Israel Strikes Iran, Iran Strikes Back, and the Region Teeters on the Brink

Israel struck Beirut, Iran fired 30 ballistic missiles at Israel, Israel retaliated across Iranian cities, the US bombed Iran days later, and the two-month ceasefire that was never really a ceasefire collapsed in a cascade of mutual strikes.

Middle East
Projectile streaks through the sky over central Israel during Iranian missile attack, June 7, 2026

The Ceasefire Is Dead: Israel Struck First β€” Again β€” and the Media Is Lying About It

Israel struck southern Beirut on June 7, violating the April 8 ceasefire. Iran responded. Israel escalated. The media calls it 'Iranian aggression.' Here is what actually happened.

Middle East
Aerial photograph of the Boardman Coal Plant showing the main power station building with its tall smokestack, surrounded by agricultural land near the Columbia River in eastern Oregon.

From Coal to Code: How Boardman Traded One Poison for Another β€” and a Town Is Paying the Price

Oregon's last coal plant closed in 2020. What replaced it β€” Amazon data centers β€” has poisoned the town's water, corrupted its government, and paid a fraction of a penny on the dollar in damages. The extraction never stopped. Only the name of the miner changed.

US News
A Palestinian woman sitting on the ground next to a damaged vehicle near rural hills in the occupied West Bank

Settlers Have Killed or Stolen 8,000 Sheep and Goats in the West Bank in 2026 β€” Starvation as a Weapon

Israeli settlers have killed or stolen 8,000 sheep and goats and destroyed 41,000 olive trees in the occupied West Bank in 2026, according to the PA Agriculture Ministry. Entire Palestinian farming communities are being driven from their land in a systematic campaign of settler violence enabled by the Israeli military and government.

Gaza Genocide
Construction equipment and scaffolding surround the partially demolished East Wing of the White House with exposed structural beams and debris

Trump Ballroom Donors Receive $50 Billion in Federal Contracts β€” Pay-to-Play Exposed

A new Public Citizen report reveals that corporations bankrolling Trump's $400 million White House ballroom have been rewarded with over $50 billion in federal contracts in six months. Fourteen of 27 known donors saw their government business surge β€” while the DOJ dropped enforcement actions against them.

Corruption
Bolivian rural workers at the seized Humberto SuΓ‘rez Roca oil field in Santa Rosa del Sara, Santa Cruz department

Rural Communities Seize Bolivia's Oil Field, Halt Production in Santa Cruz

Rural workers in Bolivia have seized an oil field in the Santa Cruz region and halted all production, as part of the general strike against neoliberalism. The site, in the Santa Rosa del Sara municipality, is now fully offline.

Civil Unrest
Palestinian residents stand among destroyed structures and debris after a settler attack on their village in the occupied West Bank

UN Experts Say What Palestinians Have Said for Decades: Settler Violence Is Ethnic Cleansing

Fourteen UN human rights experts have declared Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank has reached unprecedented levels and constitutes ethnic cleansing. Here is what that looks like on the ground.

Gaza Genocide
Ilhan Omar at a press conference after House Republicans voted to remove her from the Foreign Affairs Committee, February 2023

The Propaganda Campaign Against Ilhan Omar: A Systematic Debunking

A viral Facebook post by conservative influencer Avery Daye makes explosive claims about Rep. Ilhan Omar's family history in Somalia. We fact-checked every claim.

Politics
Official U.S. Department of Labor portrait of Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, March 2025

From the Labor Department to the Strip Club: The Disgraceful Saga of Lori Chavez-DeRemer

Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned after allegations of drinking on the job, strip club visits, travel fraud, an affair with a subordinate, and enabling her husband and father to sexually harass young female staffers.

Politics
Chris Kyle, retired Navy SEAL, holding a sniper rifle in a 2012 file photo

The American Sniper Myth: Chris Kyle, Stolen Valor, and the War Crimes America Refuses to Name

Chris Kyle lied about his medals, fabricated kills, and called Iraqis savages. America made him a hero. This is the story the movies will not tell you.

US News
A Palestinian man carries the small shrouded body of a young girl through a hospital corridor during a funeral in Khan Younis

Israeli Airstrike Kills 6-Year-Old Menna Allah Abu Labda as "Ceasefire" Gaza Continues to Bleed

Two Israeli helicopters struck a tent encampment for displaced families in Khan Younis, killing 6-year-old Menna Allah Abu Labda and 31-year-old Hanan Mahmoud. 17 wounded, including a 2-month-old baby with a severed leg. 900 Palestinians killed since the October ceasefire.

Gaza Genocide
Bathtub filling with brown muddy water from faucet in Trinidad Texas

The Crime Was a Facebook Post. The Water Was Actually Poisoned.

Trinidad, Texas arrested a woman for warning about contaminated water β€” then confirmed the water was contaminated. Now lawsuits, firings, and a town too afraid to speak.

US News
Protesters demonstrate outside the World Economic Forum in Davos against billionaire wealth and inequality

$18.3 Trillion and Counting: How Billionaire Wealth Reaches Record Heights While the World Starves

Billionaire wealth hit $18.3 trillion in 2025 β€” an 81% increase since 2020. Oxfam's latest report exposes the extraction machine: tax avoidance, regulatory capture, media ownership, and policy choices that starve billions while enriching the few.

Human Rights
4 Embryos in tubes in a cryogenic case

Israeli National Arrested at Cyprus Airport With Four Human Embryos in Cryogenic Container

A 24-year-old Israeli man was caught at Ercan Airport in northern Cyprus with four human embryos in a cryogenic container bound for Mexico, exposing an alleged international embryo trafficking network operating through unregulated IVF clinics.

World News
Basque Ertzaintza police officers swinging batons at pro-Palestinian activists on the floor of Bilbao airport arrivals hall. Several people are on the ground. Others are scrambling away.

Kidnapped by Israel, Beaten by Spain: Flotilla Activists Assaulted at Bilbao Airport on Return Home

After surviving torture in Israeli custody, Global Sumud Flotilla activists returned to Spain only to be met with batons and arrests by Basque police at Bilbao airport. Four detained.

Gaza Genocide
Five Bedouin children outside their home in Khan al-Ahmar village in the occupied West Bank

Blatant Ethnic Cleansing: How an ICC Warrant for Smotrich Triggered the Erasure of Khan al-Ahmar

Israel's far-right Finance Minister ordered the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar in retaliation for an ICC arrest warrant β€” the latest act in the systematic ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.

Gaza Genocide
Exterior of the US Department of Justice building in Washington DC

Trump's $1.8 Billion Heist: How the President Robbed the Treasury to Pay His Friends

Trump settled his own $10B IRS lawsuit by creating a $1.776 billion DOJ slush fund controlled by his former defense attorney. Jan 6 rioters are already lining up for payouts.

US News
Vast landscape of destroyed multi-story buildings reduced to rubble in Khan Younis, Gaza, under clear sky

Israel's October 7 Rape Hoax Gets a Reboot, the Hasbara still Doesn’t Justify the Ongoing Genocide

A new 300-page Israeli report claiming systematic sexual violence on October 7 is being amplified by major media. But it is built on the same debunked witnesses, discredited sources, and a serially unreliable author.

Gaza Genocide
Andover resident body slammed by police

Andover Township Bans AI Data Centers After Confrontation β€” The Death Threat Narrative

Andover, New Jersey officials announced a ban on AI data centers two days after a heated confrontation at a town meeting, claiming they were receiving death threats over the project. The timeline raises questions about when threats began and why community dissent was met with force.

Politics
Trump signing mass pardons as soon as he hits the oval office.

Trump Pardons Corrupt Officials, Dismantles Anti-Corruption Oversight Office

President Donald Trump has granted pardons to more than 1,500 people, erasing nearly $2 billion in criminal penalties. The pardons follow a clear pattern: corrupt officials convicted of bribery and fraud walk free; political allies who broke laws on Trump's behalf are rewarded; lobbyists earn millions navigating the pardon process. Meanwhile, Congressional Democrats are investigating whether 'pay-to-play' corruption is driving Trump's clemency decisions.

US News
Bob Vylan, a Black man with dreadlocks, performs on a large outdoor stage at Glastonbury Festival, holding a microphone and engaging with the crowd. Behind him, festival-goers wave Palestinian flags and respond to his performance.

'Death to the IDF' Is Not About Killing Jews. It's About Dismantling Genocidal Ideology.

The controversial chant 'death, death to the IDF' is not antisemitic and not a call to murder. It is a demand to dismantle a military institution accused of genocide, war crimes, and apartheid. Bob Vylan's statement: 'We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine.' The chant means death to ideology, not death to people.

Gaza Genocide
Family photo of the Egyptian mother Hayam El Gamal and her five children who were held at the Dilley detention center

The Courts Said They Were Free. ICE Said They Weren't.

An Egyptian family of six was taken back into ICE custody two days after federal judges ordered their release from a Texas detention facility, revealing the dangerous expansion of executive power where immigration enforcement operates as a law unto itself.

US News
Group of striking meatpacking workers standing together holding protest signs outside the JBS plant

Meatpacking Workers Say Enough: Denver Strike Vote Is the Latest Front in the War on Corporate Meat

97% of union workers at a JBS-owned meat processing plant in Denver voted to authorize a strike, citing unfair labor practices, retaliation, and dangerous working conditions. The vote follows a historic three-week strike at JBS's Greeley plant β€” the first major meatpacking strike in 40 years.

US News
The U.S. Capitol building dome rising against a blue sky in Washington D.C., the seat of Congress where the Section 702 surveillance law extension was debated and voted on

Surveillance State Wins Another Round: Section 702 Gets Temporary Extension

Congress voted to extend Section 702 of FISA for 10 days until April 30, after GOP leaders failed to secure a five-year or 18-month renewal. The warrantless surveillance program faces growing opposition from civil libertarians warning of a 'secret law' that would 'stun' the American public.

Politics
Dozens of US veterans and family members of military personnel gather to protest the Iran war at the US Capitol.

The Moment Is Too Big For Silence: Veterans Arrested Protesting Iran War

About 120 U.S. military veterans stood in formation in the Cannon House Office Building rotunda on Capitol Hill, holding red tulips and conducting a flag-folding ceremony. At least 62 were arrested by U.S. Capitol Police, including Mike Prysner (CCW Executive Director) and Tyler Romero (conscientious objector). They demanded Speaker Mike Johnson stop funding Operation Epic Fury.

Human Rights
U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, right, claimed that the Inflation Reduction Act gives β€œtax breaks to wealthy Americans to buy electric vehicles” and U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, left, two of Mississippi's most disgraceful senators

Five Mississippi Politicians Just Took Food Off the Table for 37,400 People

Since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act took effect, Mississippi has seen a 10.6% drop in SNAP enrollment β€” about 37,400 Mississippians who no longer receive benefits. Sen. Roger Wicker, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, Rep. Trent Kelly, Rep. Michael Guest, and Rep. Mike Ezell all voted yes. They've taken money from AIPAC and used it to starve their own constituents.

US News
Large Iranian-flagged cargo ship M/V Touska seen from the deck of a U.S. Navy ship

Trump Brags About Blowing a Hole in an Iranian Ship: This Is What War Crimes Look Like

Donald Trump bragged on Truth Social about the USS Spruance blowing a hole in Iranian cargo ship TOUSKA's engine room and seizing the vessel. Under international law, attacking a civilian ship in international waters is a war crime. The US is losing global hegemony as the world watches Trump's incompetence.

World News
Brian Poindexter, a union ironworker and Brook Park City Councilman, standing for a campaign photo as a candidate for Ohio's 7th Congressional District in 2026

Union Iron Worker Challenges Trump Loyalist in Ohio's 2026 Congressional Race

Brian Poindexter, a 25-year union ironworker and apprentice instructor, is challenging Republican Rep. Max Miller β€” grandson of a $6.8 billion real estate fortune β€” in Ohio's 7th Congressional District, framing the race as a choice between working-class representation and inherited wealth.

Politics
An ambulance crew responds after housing was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon.

They Bombed a Hospital. Then They Bombed the Medics Who Came to Help.

Israel bombed Tebnine Government Hospital twice in two days, injuring 11 workers. Then they carried out a 'quadruple tap' attack that killed four medics and wounded six. This is the systematic destruction of Lebanon's healthcare infrastructure β€” a war crime the world ignores.

Gaza Genocide
Drone aerial view of a warehouse fire with thick smoke and visible flames. Representative image of the type of fire that occurred at the Raytheon building in Warner Robins, Georgia on April 13, 2026.

Fire at Raytheon Building in Georgia: When War Profiteers Meet Resistance

A fire at the Raytheon Company building in Warner Robins, Georgia, is part of a growing pattern of attacks on symbols of American power and capitalism. The target is unmistakable: one of the world's largest arms manufacturers, supplying bombs for wars abroad while the working class at home struggles to survive.

Civil Unrest
Scorched door of Tesla service center in New Orleans after Molotov cocktail attack on April 15, 2026. The door shows visible fire damage with soot and charring around the entryway.

Another Molotov Cocktail: What the New Orleans Tesla Attack Reveals About Economic Desperation in America

The third Molotov attack in a week β€” a Tesla service center in New Orleans β€” signals a growing wave of economic desperation in America. Workers who can't afford to live on their wages are finding new ways to make themselves heard.

Civil Unrest
Crowd of Hezbollah supporters at a protest in Beirut, waving yellow Hezbollah flags and holding up printed images, with some people raising their fists in defiance.

Hezbollah Rejects Israel-Lebanon Talks, Rocketing Northern Israel as Washington Negotiations Begin

As Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors met for direct talks in Washington, Hezbollah launched rockets at 13 northern Israeli towns, rejecting negotiations it called a 'free concession' to Israel while demanding a ceasefire Israel refuses to discuss.

Gaza Genocide
Massive warehouse fire sends thick black smoke into the sky as Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units battle the five-alam blaze at Global Warehouse Solutions.

The Fire in Miami Gardens: When Underpaid Workers Meet Cost-Cutting Logistics

A five-alam warehouse fire at Global Warehouse Solutions burned for five days, exposing how underpaid workers and cost-cutting logistics models create the conditions for industrial disasters.

Civil Unrest
Lebanese soldiers at the scene of an explosion which left four Israeli Occupation soldiers injured, Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Hezbollah Ambush in Bint Jbeil: Israeli Forces Lured Into Death Trap

Hezbollah executed a devastating ambush in Bint Jbeil, luring Israeli occupation forces into a booby-trapped building and detonating it with no survivors. Israel acknowledged a 'serious security incident' but provided no details.

Gaza Genocide
San Francisco police officers and vehicle at the scene of an alleged shooting near Sam Altman's Russian Hill residence on April 12, 2026

When Silicon Valley's Castles Come Crashing Down

Two attacks in 72 hours on Sam Altman's $27 million mansion. The media calls it 'AI anxiety.' It's actually a working class pushing back against an industry gambling with their future.

Civil Unrest
Five-alarm fire engulfs the abandoned Galaxie Chemical Corporation plant in Paterson, New Jersey, which sat vacant for 20 years as a Superfund hazardous waste site before burning in April 2026

Nine Fires in Seven Days: The Working Class Has Handed Down Its Verdict

Nine fires in seven days across seven states. Warehouses, lumberyards, chemical plants burning. The working class has had enough. This is their verdict: you took everything, now you get the fire.

Civil Unrest
Inside totally destroyed tractor trailers.

The Sixth Fire: Six Trailers, Two Acres, and the Corporate Media is Tone Deaf

Six tractor-trailers destroyed behind a Brockton, Massachusetts bowling alley. Flames spread to 2 acres of woodland. The sixth massive fire in five days.

US News
Aerial or elevated view of a large Amazon warehouse building with thick black smoke rising from the roof where solar panels are visible, with fire trucks and emergency vehicles positioned below on a clear day.

The Fifth Fire: Amazon's Green Energy Goes Up in Smoke

Seventy-five to a hundred solar panels caught fire on the roof of an Amazon fulfillment center in West Jefferson, Ohio. The fifth massive fire in five days.

US News
Sam Altman's House

The Fires Are Not Random - America Is Boiling Over

Three fires in three days across California - Sam Altman's home, a Kimberly-Clark warehouse, Ontario Mills mall. Not isolated incidents, but expressions of a working class that has run out of options. From AI billionaires to warehouse workers, the extraction machine is under attack.

Civil Unrest
Hector Ruben McGurk is a 73-year-old marijuana prisoner serving a life without parole at federal prison in Victorville, California.

Hector Ruben McGurk: A Life Sentence for Marijuana

Hector Ruben McGurk, 73, was denied parole in April 2026 and faces dying in federal prison for a non-violent marijuana offense while states legalize cannabis across America. His life without parole sentence means he will die incarcerated for a plant that is now legal in half of the country.

US News
Two Palestine Action protesters on the roof of a weapons factory.

The UK's War on Protest: How Zionist Lobbying and Israeli Embassy Interference Criminalised Dissent

How pro-Israel lobbying, Labour Party connections, and documented Israeli Embassy interference led to the criminalisation of dissent in Britain. The High Court ruled the ban unlawful.

World News
Wildkat Strike protester outside of NY State Prison

Behind Bars, Forgotten by Design: New York's Wildcat Prison Strike

A deep examination of New York's February-March 2026 wildcat prison strike that exposed systemic abandonment of incarcerated people. The piece documents minimal staffing, denial of basic services, the state's failed response calling in National Guard, and the human cost of conditions violating UN standards for treatment of prisoners.

US News
Rows of farm tractors parked along Avenue des Champs-Elysees with the Arc de Triomphe in the background during the French farmers protest in Paris, January 2026

In France, Farmers Are Criminalized While Corporations Profit

Examination of two major underreported European stories from early 2026: the arrest of 52 French farmers during peaceful protests against budget cuts, and the continent-wide 'No Kings' anti-war movement protesting U.S.-Israel escalation in Iran. Both stories reveal systematic suppression of dissent and media marginalization of inconvenient narratives.

World News
A journalist carries burned safety gear from a car that was hit by an Israeli airstrike, which killed three journalists in south Lebanon on March 28, 2026.

Israel Admits Photoshopping Evidence to Justify Killing Journalist

The Israeli military openly admitted to creating a fake photo of journalist Ali Shoaib to claim he was affiliated with Hezbollah.

Gaza Genocide
Photo of Angela Lipps

AI Policing Is Destroying Innocent Lives β€” And Police Are Letting It Happen

Across America, facial recognition and AI surveillance tools are jailing innocent people - grandmothers, pregnant women, grandfathers, students. Companies like Clearview AI, Flock Safety, and Palantir are building a private police state, feeding data between themselves and federal agencies, while innocent lives are shattered. This investigation traces the false arrest of Angela Lipps, a Tennessee grandmother, and documents similar cases involving Harvey Eugene Murphy Jr., Porcha Woodruff, Robert Williams, Nijeer Parks, Michael Oliver, and Jason Vernau.

Human Rights
National Guard deployed to LA federal building durring ICE protest summer 2025

5 Underreported U.S. Stories: Corporate Press Won't Touch

From ICE raids pushing cities to brink of martial law, to facial recognition jailing innocent grandmothers, to homeless encampments being sealed underground β€” here are five underreported crises unfolding across America while national media obsesses over war.

US News
4 Palestinian women killed in West Bank by debris from projectile, a rescue worker searches the rubble of the salon.

The Women in the Beauty Salon: A Story Numbers Won't Tell You

Three Palestinian women killed in West Bank beauty salon strike. Israeli military called it a direct hit. Their names: Mais Ghazi Masalmeh (17), Sahira Rizq Masalmeh (50), and Amal Sobhi Abdel Karim Matawa' Masalmeh (36).

World News
Donald Trump & Brendan Carr, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in Trump's regime

THE LICENSE TO KILL JOURNALISM: Trump's FCC Threatens Broadcasters as Part of a Broader War on the Press

The FCC's threat to revoke broadcasters' licenses over Iran war coverage isn't an isolated incident β€” it's part of a systematic campaign to crush independent journalism in America.

Politics
Sam Altman in Washington DC

TRUST ME BRO: The Corporate-Military AI Faustian Bargain

A deep dive into OpenAI's Pentagon contract and why 'trust me' is the wrong thing to say about AI weapons and surveillance.

Politics
Widespread destruction in Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza Strip, caused by Israeli bombardment

While the World Watches Iran, Israel Tightens the Siege on Gaza and the West Bank

As the U.S. and Israel wage war on Iran, Israel has used the cover of regional conflict to impose a near-total siege on Gaza, seal off the West Bank, and escalate settler violence against Palestinians β€” all with minimal international scrutiny. This is not a coincidence. It is policy.

Gaza Genocide